Ukraine, Covid, Climate Change, Cost of Living: Anything Else?
Dear Reader, Life seems to contain constant contradictions and perhaps the most obvious is the situation of the world today, further provoking the question, "With so much suffering prevalent in the world, why - if there is a God - is God not doing anything about it?" So now we have the situation in the Ukraine with what we must take to be unwarranted suffering being applied to its citizens, and yet the man sitting on the Russian throne seems to be utterly unfeeling about their plight. We watch on, wondering, "What next?", and perhaps asking, "What are we to understand from all that has been building up, particularly since the start of the Millennium?" I choose to take William Blake's view in his quote above. For me, there is a satisfactory explanation as a result of becoming more aware of the history, knowledge and sciences that have existed in India for countless years. In the situation that exists, I point to the Indian knowledge that we are now ex